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The defendants themselves practically
admit in their deposition that I was anxious to receive the woman for the
torture, and that Theophemus urged me to postpone the action, whereas I was
unwilling to do so. And yet it was regarding this woman, whom I demanded for the
torture, but whom Theophemus offered to give up, as these men say; whom,
however, no one ever saw present in person either at that time before the
arbitrator or afterwards in the court-room, or produced at any other
place,—it was regarding her that these witnesses deposed that
Theophemus was ready to give her up, and made the offer with a challenge;
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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